Established in 1932, North Caucasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is a for-profit public higher education institution located in the small city of Vladikavkaz (population range of 250,000-499,999 inhabitants), North Ossetia-Alania Republic.
Officially accredited and/or recognized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, North Caucasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SKGMI) is a small (uniRank enrollment range: 4,000-4,999 students) coeducational higher education institution.
North Caucasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SKGMI) offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees such as bachelor degrees in several areas of study. See the unit rank degree levels and areas of study matrix below for further details.
- More than 7,000 students enrolled in 34 specialities and areas in 12 faculties: mining and geology, metallurgy, electromechanical, architectural and construction, electronic engineering, economic, legal, food production, information technology, pre-university training, correspondence, advanced training and retraining of specialists
- 47 departments where a highly qualified scientific and pedagogical team works, consisting of: 23 full members of the IAS VS, MAI, RANS, New York Academy of Sciences, Academy of Mining Sciences, Academy of Noosphere, Academy of Humanities, 22 corresponding members of the Higher School of Education, MANEB, the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, the Academy of Electrical Engineering Sciences, the MAI, 76 honored workers of Russia and RNO-Alania
- Postgraduate studies in which scientific personnel are trained in 38 specialities, as well as 2 specialized councils for the defence of doctoral and master's theses
- 52 educational computer classes for 780 workplaces, as well as more than 150 laboratories, scientific and methodological classrooms and training grounds.
- The library is one of the richest and most complete technical libraries of universities in the North Caucasus region. Its book fund is more than half a million volumes of technical, socio-political and fiction literature.
- An Internet site that provides stable access of university students and teachers to world information resources.
- The material and technical base of the university covers all areas of the life of both staff and students.